Leon Wieseltier, the former longtime literary editor of The New Republic, is joining Brookings as the Isaiah Berlin Senior Fellow in Culture and Policy, where he will focus on “the influence of culture and the humanities on various realms of...

A 1978 collection of essays on 19th-century Russian intellectuals has virtually disappeared from bookstores across New York City, thanks to Tom Stoppard and his epic three-part play “The Coast of Utopia.”

To the Editor: Geoffrey Wheatcroft's review of ''Letters, 1928-1946'' is certainly judicious, but it leaves the reader with an incomplete profile of Adam von Trott, the German onetime Rhodes scholar (1931-33). The friendship between Trott and...

July 18, 2004, Sunday

To the Editor: I am delighted that Geoffrey Wheatcroft thought well in general of my edition of Isaiah Berlin's early letters (June 27), but I must take issue with him about a factual criticism he makes of one of my annotations. He writes, ''A...